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Wednesday 3 September

Welcome Reception
Ithaca Auditorium, City Hall
Cost:  Included in Full Registration..Numbers are limited

Brisbane’s Lord Mayor, Campbell Newman, welcomes you to the Subtropical Cities Conference for 2008. Join us for drinks, canapés and some informal networking.


Thursday 4 September

Conference Dinner
River Canteen Boardwalk, SouthBank
Cost:  Included in Full Registration.  Extra tickets $121.00 (including GST)

On the banks of the Brisbane River, at our iconic SouthBank Parklands, this open air venue with Brisbane City as a backdrop will showcase our subtropical climate perfectly!

There's something about a table on the banks of the Brisbane River that encourages a diner to relax, eat, drink and be themselves.

With view of the city, the Goodwill Bridge, and Kangaroo Point Cliffs, River Canteen is a destination restaurant.

Dinner Speaker - Nick Earls
                                              
Nick Earls has written numerous critically and commercially successful adult novels, including Zigzag Street, Bachelor Kisses, Perfect Skin and World of Chickens, as well as bestselling young adult novels, most recently Monica Bloom.  Zigzag Street won a Betty Trask Award in the UK and 48 Shades of Brown won the 2000 Children’s Book Council Book of the Year Award for Older Readers.  The film adaptation of the book was released in 2006.  A number of Nick’s other novels are being adapted for film or television and three have been adapted for theatre.  He has contributed to the Girls Night In series of anthologies, which have raised $2 million for the War Child Charity, and is Chair of War Child in Australia.  Nick’s latest adult novel The Thompson Gunner was published by Penguin in 2004.  His latest YA offering, Joel and Cat Set the Story Straight, which he co-wrote with Rebecca Sparrow was published by Penguin and he is currently working on a much anticipated new adult novel called The True Story of Butterfish which Random House Australia will publish in July 2009.

Nick Earls’s novels have a close attachment to subtropical cities, having almost all been set in Brisbane or at the Sunshine Coast. They have, however, also been sold internationally, leading to him being a finalist in the Premier’s Export Awards and a Betty Trask Award winner in the UK for Zigzag Street. Four of his novels have been adapted into stage plays and two (so far) into films. His work’s strong connection with Brisbane led to him becoming the face of the city’s marketing campaigns from 2002 to 2004.

http://www.nickearls.com/

Saturday 6 September

Guided Tour – PlaceMakers Exhibition
Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA)
Cost:  FREE (places are limited)

 'Place Makers: Contemporary Queensland Architects’ presents the work of 22 Queensland architects in a major new exhibition.

Exploring diverse design responses to climate, changing lifestyle patterns and population growth, ‘Place Makers’ will be the largest exhibition of contemporary architecture ever staged in an Australian art museum.

The exhibition will showcase significant residential, public and institutional projects built during the past 15 years, documenting the work of Queensland-based architectural practices which span several generations.

The work will be presented in an immersive and engaging exhibition environment that will include large-scale models, specially commissioned films and photography, hand drawn architectural plans and concept sketches, and CAD animations.

Exhibition
‘Place Makers’ presents architectural projects that successfully address key aspects of subtropical living, as well as urban renewal and density, and the timeless concerns for basic human needs and wellbeing.

The exhibition reveals the extraordinary diversity of residential work being produced in Queensland, and includes internationally recognised commissions for individual houses, modest suburban ‘infill’ designs, an isolated dwelling in regional Queensland, innovative new public housing, and an exemplary coastal high-rise.

‘Place Makers’ also presents recent award-winning public buildings, highlighting their capacity to create important social spaces within urban centres. Links between residential ‘research’ and its expression in successful large-scale public and institutional buildings are clearly articulated.

The exhibition also provides a fascinating insight into the historical influences on today’s architecture, including responses to the ‘timber and tin’ tradition of the ‘Queenslander’, key explorations and adaptations of Modernism, and influential efforts to develop an architecture responsive to place and the subtropics.

‘Place Makers’ contextualises some of the state’s most exciting recent architecture, and profiles the capabilities and inventiveness of Queensland architects today.

Architects will include: Rex Addison, Andresen O’Gorman, Arkhefield, Bark, Bligh Voller Nield, Bud Brannigan Architects, Lindsay & Kerry Clare (Architectus), Cox Rayner Architects, Donovan Hill, Richard Kirk Architect, JMA Architects, m3architecture, Ian Moore Architects, Owen and Vokes, Phorm Architecture + Design, Gabriel Poole, Riddel Architecture, James Russell Architect, Brian Steendÿk, Jennifer Taylor and James Connor, Elizabeth Watson Brown Architects and Wilson Architects.